Portfolio

Notes on observability, infrastructure, and IT.

• April 16, 2026 · 8 min read · Engineering / Observability

  Building an Enterprise Health Status Dashboard

  How I built a custom Next.js status dashboard with Okta SSO, role-based stakeholder views, and OpsGenie-driven component state — replacing Statuspage.io for a client who needed control the vendor couldn't offer.

• April 16, 2026 · 7 min read · Engineering / Incident Management

  Building an Enterprise Slack Incident Command Bot

  How I built an enterprise Slack bot that auto-creates incident channels, routes responders from OpsGenie team mappings, enforces a 30-minute update cadence, and later consolidated into Next.js as the backbone of a full status platform.

• 2024-06-01 · 9 min read · Observability

  Enterprise IoT Observability with Grafana

  As lead support engineer at an IoT workplace safety startup, I made the case for Grafana and single-handedly built the company's entire observability stack — integrating Clickhouse SQL, Prometheus, InfluxDB, BigQuery, Databricks, in-house APIs, and inventory databases into a single pane of glass. I then wired Grafana OnCall to auto-generate fully-contextualized Zendesk tickets, eliminating black-box troubleshooting and driving 80%+ of all support ticket creation automatically.

• April 14, 2026 · 14 min read · Infrastructure / Homelab

  Building a Production-Grade k3s Homelab

  How I built a 4-node k3s cluster on Proxmox, wired up Argo CD for GitOps, and exposed it to the internet via Cloudflare Tunnel — without opening a single firewall port.

• April 16, 2026 · 8 min read · Engineering / DevOps

  Building My Portfolio Site: Next.js, Live Prometheus, and GitOps on a Homelab k3s Cluster

  A deep dive into how I built anthonypaulruiz.com — Next.js 16 + React 19, live Prometheus metrics, React Flow infra diagrams, OpenTelemetry tracing, and a GitOps deployment pipeline via GitHub Actions → Argo CD → k3s.

• April 16, 2026 · 9 min read · Engineering / IT

  Building a Staff Monitoring & Productivity Platform for a 50-Person Law Firm

  How I built a comprehensive internal monitoring platform integrating Zabbix, a custom C# keystroke logger, delta-based screenshot capture, idle time analysis, a client arrival notification system, and server room telemetry — all surfaced in Grafana with automated weekly PDF reports.

• April 16, 2026 · 6 min read · Engineering / Web

  Rebuilding a Law Firm Website: From 10-Second Load Times to Under 2 Seconds

  How I migrated Gorayeb & Associates from a slow, unoptimized site to a fast, well-ranked one — self-managed Ionos VM, PHP/HTML/JS, Cloudflare CDN + email security, and conversion-optimized landing pages that backed a $25K/month ad spend.